I’ve been enjoying these little “You want…” style posts. Post titles like that are a little more… forceful for my normal taste, but I like the spirit of sharing a best practice that perhaps isn’t well-known-enough.
Killian started it with
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Some nice coverage from Andy about CSS things that are truly new. If you haven’t looked at new things in CSS in, say, a year, I’d bet pretty much all of this will be new to you. A lot of …
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https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2021/02/things-you-can-do-with-css-today/
CSS is yet to have a switch rule or conditional if, aside from the specific nature of @media queries and some deep trickery with CSS custom properties. Let’s have a look at why it would be useful if we …
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I like Andy’s idea here: .wrapper { width: clamp(16rem, 90vw, 70rem); margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding-left: 1.5rem; padding-right: 1.5rem; } Normally I’d just set a max-width there, but as Andy says:
This becomes a slight issue in mid-sized viewports, such
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Malte Ubl’s list for:
8 image loading optimization techniques to minimize both the bandwidth used for loading images on the web and the CPU usage for image display.
Fluid width images in CSS, not forgetting the height and width attributes
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https://www.industrialempathy.com/posts/image-optimizations/
Imagine a header of a website that is nice and thick, with plenty of padding on top and bottom of the content. As you scroll down, it shrinks up on itself, reducing some of that padding, making more screen real …
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https://css-tricks.com/how-to-create-a-shrinking-header-on-scroll-without-javascript/
I love this piece from Remy Sharp where he argues that the web didn’t get more complicated over the last 20 years, despite what we might think:
Web development did not change. Web development grew. There are more options now,
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https://remysharp.com/2021/02/11/the-web-didnt-change-you-did
High five to Netlify for the ❥ sponsorship. Netlify is a great place to host your static (or not-so-static!) website because of the great speed, DX, pricing, and feature set. I’ve thought of Netlify a bunch of times just in …
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The idea of an “abortable” fetch came to life in 2017 when AbortController was released. That gives us a way to bail on an API request initiated by fetch() — even multiple calls — whenever we want. Here’s a super …
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https://css-tricks.com/using-abortcontroller-as-an-alternative-for-removing-event-listeners/
Imagine if your :focus styles animated from element to element as you tab through a site. Like the focus ring up and flew across the page to the next element. The spirit of it is similar to smooth scrolling: it’s …
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